Wednesday, December 24, 2014

We are just arriving home from Jingdezhen China and starting to unpack and process our whirlwind studio experience. Above are a couple of our bonsai trees in the studio fresh from the PVD, shiny enough to make Jeff Koons very proud.

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Mike carved these sci-fi bonsai by hand to cast in Jingdezhen for the next few weeks. This is the first test batch from the kiln, and I am beyond impressed. We are starting to work on the surface now - adding pattern and color to really push them over the edge.

Saturday, November 29, 2014

We are leaving for Jingdezhen China in eight hours, and have big plans to hit the ground running. This semester has been insane, and we have been working non-stop on some of our largest projects to date. For the next three weeks we won't slow down per se, but we will have time to explore and get a little weird in the studio.

Saturday, October 11, 2014

GMD has been furiously working, building out the units for our FotoFocus installation Grand Theft that opens next Sunday. These boxes will hold our stolen goods, which will sit on pieces of black marble. 8 days left in the count down. Yikes.

Sunday, September 28, 2014

We had custom neon fabricated for our Grand Theft lithophanes, and are finally starting to put all the parts together. In the image above Mike is testing how far we can move the porcelain away from the neon to illuminate the entire image.

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

We are currently hard at work on our upcoming exhibition Grand Theft, for the Fotofocus Biennial 2014 next month in Cincinnati. We have been collecting pieces from around the country for the past year, turning our iphone photos into 3-dimensional scans that then are 3D printed. Our installation will be two parts: each object molded and cast in porcelain, and backlit lithophanes of the objects in their original museum context.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Finally updated our website - we were still using iweb, which is a program that Apple discontinued more than 2 years ago. Needless to say, it had to be done. Still working out a few kinks with connecting this blog to the site, but otherwise here it is...

Thursday, July 10, 2014

We have been working with a good friend of ours Matt Distel on his newest project, The Littlefield, a craft bourbon bar in Northside, Cincinnati. We designed an interior panel for the second story, are working on some lithophanes for behind the bar, and installed some of our wolf heads around the space. Matt had the brilliant idea to make matching wolf head ice cubes, so here is our inaugural test and drink. Cheers.

Sunday, June 29, 2014

"Zuber's Menagerie", iphone installation shot from Mike's install at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft a couple weeks ago. We are part of the show Second Life, curated by Joey Yates, which runs from June 14th - August 31st. Super proud to have our work sandwiched between Damien Hirst and John James Audubon (Mike's hero).

Monday, June 16, 2014

The beginning of our 2001 capsule room of sorts... a combination of ideas over the last year and half that are finally starting to come together. We are working in collaboration with Chris Vorhees, who can pretty much make anything.

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

In less than two weeks are taking off and heading down to Omaha Nebraska to be Resident Artists at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts with these fine folks above. We are beyond excited, which makes powering through these last two weeks of school a breeze (of sorts).
Can't wait to hang out in here and make new work:

Monday, March 17, 2014

We are psyched to be included in the exhibition and book Crafting a Continuum, Rethinking Contemporary Craft, now at the Bellevue Arts Museum through April 27th. Even better is that the book is available on Amazon, which makes us feel super legit.

Saturday, February 22, 2014

We are back at Rookwood, working on a new series of interventions and collaborations. Kataro Shirayamadani's Dragon Vase from 1922 is pictured above, with a variety of alterations to the surface and glaze. Not sure where this going right now... but we definitely have a couple exciting projects in queue.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

This was just sent for a show happening at the National Museum of Wales, in Cardiff. We were invited to manipulate several digitalized objects from the museum collection. These will be 3-d printed and shown among the original artifacts. The monkey couldn't be happier with all this loot. The exhibition will open this April.

Monday, January 6, 2014

Nothing like making lithophanes in China - the clarity is unreal. The image above is from a cultural revolution propaganda poster, which seemed super appropriate to appropriate.
Side note: GMD has been listening to The China History Podcast nonstop, which is definitely worth checking out. They are fascinating.